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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jim Dale, post: 5494687, member: 100459&quot;]From what I understand, my coin is from 1968.&nbsp; That means my father got it when he was stationed in Vietnam.&nbsp; He had only about 60 days left on his rotation when he was walking across a helicopter pad and a Vietcong dropped a mortar on him.&nbsp; He was medivac to Fitzsimmons Hospital and was forced to retired.&nbsp; I loved my Dad but the enemy was trying to kill him.&nbsp; He was in the Navy during WWII in a submarine.&nbsp; From what I heard (since I wasn&#039;t born until 1947) he was a corpsman on the sub.&nbsp; They were being attacked while they were on the surface and one of the men were trying to secure the &quot;cannon&quot;(don&#039;t know what it was.).&nbsp; He got hit and my Dad went out to get him.&nbsp; He just about got down when he got hit by Japanese fire.&nbsp; Purple Heart number 1.&nbsp; He was sent to Hawaii to recover from his wounds.&nbsp; The war was over before he got out of the hospital.&nbsp; He stayed in the Navy after the was.&nbsp; I was born in December 1947 Aiea Heights Hospital at Pearl.&nbsp; After his time was through, he was told that he would lose a rank if he reenlisted.&nbsp; So, he got out, but he didn&#039;t like civilian life, so he decided to re-enlist, but the navy was still going to take his rank.&nbsp; He went over to the Army Recruiter and he re-enlisted with the Army because they gave him 2 ranks.&nbsp; He was a medic and when Korea started up, he was sent to Korea.&nbsp; I think my Dad, even though I love him, is more stupid than brave.&nbsp; His outfit was under fire and some of their men got hit and he went out under fire to help them.&nbsp; He got a couple of them back but got hit when he went back to help others.&nbsp; A man named James William Holloway, pulled him out from under fire and saved his life.&nbsp; Anyway, Purple Heart Number 2 and a Silver Star. He evidently learned something after his second Purple Heart.&nbsp; He went back to school to become a Doctor.&nbsp; In 1954, he was transferred to Landstuhl Army Hospital.&nbsp; In 1967 he was transferred to a MASH unit in Vietnam.&nbsp; That&#039;s where he got number 3.&nbsp; He wasn&#039;t trying to save anybody this time.&nbsp; After all this, a stupid truck driver kills him. That&#039;s the man I got my coins from and started me on the long trek of coin collecting.&nbsp;&nbsp; I miss him.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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